The History of the Puritans - 1837 Author:Daniel Neal Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he had not gone, as Mr. Fuller expresses it, a more compendious way, to answer for all his proceedings in the high court of heaven. He died April 12, 1641. Th... more »e Rev. Mr. John Eaton, M.A. and vicar of Wickham- Market, was born in Kent 1575, and of a peculiar mould, says Mr. Echard -f-, very paradoxical in his opinions, and reckoned a great Antinomian, and one of the founders of that sect, for which he more than once suffered imprisonment. His chief performance was a book entitled, " The honeycomb of free justification by Christ alone;" for which he was imprisoned in the Gate-house at Westminster. Mr. Echard admits, that by means of his zeal, his exemplary patience, and piety, he was exceedingly admired in the neighbourhood where he lived, and strangely valued for many years after his death. In truth, though he committed some mistakes in his assertions about the doctrine of grace, he was nevertheless, says Mr. Archdeacon, a pattern of faith, holiness, and cheerfulness, in his sufferings, to succeeding generations-. He died in the sixty-seventh year of his age. CHAPTER X. FROM THE REASSEMBLING OF THE PARLIAMENT, TO THE KING'S LEAVING HIS PALACE OF WHITEHALL, JANUARY 10, 1641—2. Before his majesty left Scotland, advice came to London [November 1] of a general insurrection of the Papists in Ireland, and of a most cruel and bloody massacre of the Protestants of that kingdom. J The project of an insurrection was formed in the months of March and April 1(541, not without the privity of the English court, and executed October 23 following; no information of it having been given to the Protestants till the very night before it was to take place, when it was too late to prevent the effects of it in the country, and almost to save the city of Book 11. p. 194. t Ath. Ox. vol. 2....« less